806 ANNUAL REPORTS OF DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



and which are obsolete and worthlesa, shall be delivered to the Chief of the Supply 

 Division of this department to sell as waste paper or for destruction, and the Chief 

 of the Supply Division is hereby authorized and directed to dispose of the same in 

 the manner indicated. 



W. M. Hays, Acting Secretary. 

 Attest: 



C. C. Clark, Chief Clerk. 



Department of Agriculture, 



Office op the Secretary, 

 Washington, D. C, November 17, 1910. 

 Special Order. 



It is hereby ordered that all documentary charges preferred against any person 

 employed in any bureau, division, office, or service in the Department of Agriculture, 

 and all documentary testimony and evidence submitted in relation thereto, or com- 

 plete certified copies thereof, be deposited and filed in the office of the appointment 

 clerk of the department for the immediate use, direction, and convenience of the 

 Secretary of Agriculture. 



James Wilson, 

 Secretary of Agriculture. 



Department of Agriculture, 



Office of the Secretary, 

 Washington, D. C, December 21, 1910. 

 Circular Letter. 



The especial attention of the chiefs of bureaus, divisions, and offices in the United 

 States Department of Agriculture is hereby called to the civil-service law, rules, and 

 regulations, regarding transfers from the nonapportioned service to the apportioned 

 service (i. e., to Washington, D. C). 



Gentlemen: The civil-service act, section 2 (22 Stat. L., 403), provides: 



"That it shall be the duty of the Civil Service Commissioners: First, to aid the 

 President, as he may request, in preparing suitable rules for carrying this act into 

 effect, and when said rules shall have been promulgated it shall be the duty of all 

 officers of the United States in the departments and offices to which any such rules 

 may relate to aid, in all proper ways, in carrying said rules, and any modification 

 thereof, into effect. Second, and among other things, said rules shall provide and 

 declare, as nearly aa the conditions of good administration will warrant, as follows: 

 Third, appointments to the public service aforesaid in the departments at Wash- 

 ington shall be apportioned among the several States and Territories and the District 

 of Columbia upon the basis of population as ascertained at the last preceding census." 



The acts of July 11, 1890, and July 2, 1909, relating to the apportionment are intended 

 to secure the faithful application of the law. 



The above enactments compel the observance of the apportionment in all cases of 

 the proposed transfer from the nonapportioned to the apportioned service, which 

 transfers can not be authorized from States which have received more than the average 

 share of apportioned appointments. 



Rule 10, section 8, clause (c): "The apportionment must be observed, unless waived 

 by the commission upon the certificate of the appointing officer that the transfer is 

 required in the interests of good administration, setting forth fully and in detail the 

 reasons therefor. 



"A transfer from the nonapportioned to the apportioned service is charged to the 

 apportionment of the State of which the person transferred is a legal resident. If this 

 State has received an excessive share of appointments, such a transfer is in the nature 

 of an exception to section 2 of the civil-service act, which provides for the apportion- 

 ment of appointments to the public service in the departments at Washington among 

 the several States and Territories and the District of Columbia. Such transfers are 

 therefore not authorized, unless the person whose transfer is sought possesses guali- 

 fications not possessed by eligibles tested by competitive examination, and it is not 

 practicable to fill the position by the transfer or promotion of a person in the appor- 

 tioned service. 



"The interests of good administration may sometimes permit, though they can very 

 seldom require, a transfer, unless the employee is possessed of some unusual or highly 

 technical knowledge, ability, or skill which is required for the most efficient per- 

 formance of the duties of the position to which he is to be transferred, and whicn it 



